Broadcom 4311 rev 1 wireless driver.

[Killer boi]

Welp, I decided before I came here, I'd make sure I had all the data I could acquire, as windows wireless drivers doesn't seem to work for me after Ultimate Edition 2.9. I've gotten it to acknowledge there's a wireless card, but I'm not sure which firmware to get. The STA drivers came by default, but apparently somewhere along the lines of what I've been doing, I've removed those. But, heres all the output I would believe would be required, I'm not 100% sure, if you need something else, let me know. I would also like to say, my laptop has no internet access, the ethernet port hasn't worked for quite some time, so if I need to download something I will be getting it on my desktop and transferring it via USB.

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fredrick@fredrick-3000-N100 ~ $ lspci -nn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub [8086:27a0] (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:27a2] (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:27a6] (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller [8086:27d8] (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 [8086:27d0] (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 [8086:27d2] (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:27c8] (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:27c9] (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:27ca] (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:27cb] (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:27cc] (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:27b9] (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller [8086:27c4] (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller [8086:27da] (rev 02)
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN [14e4:4311] (rev 01)
05:01.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ [10ec:8139] (rev 10)
05:04.0 CardBus bridge [0607]: ENE Technology Inc CB1410 Cardbus Controller [1524:1410] (rev 01)
05:06.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller [1180:0832]
05:06.1 SD Host controller [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter [1180:0822] (rev 19)
05:06.2 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter [1180:0592] (rev 0a)
05:06.3 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller [1180:0852] (rev 05)
fredrick@fredrick-3000-N100 ~ $ rfkill list all
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
   Soft blocked: no
   Hard blocked: no
fredrick@fredrick-3000-N100 ~ $ sudo lshw -C network
[sudo] password for fredrick:
  *-network               
       description: Network controller
       product: BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
       version: 01
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
       configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=0
       resources: irq:17 memory:d0000000-d0003fff
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 1
       bus info: pci@0000:05:01.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 10
       serial: 00:0f:b0:d4:72:7f
       size: 10Mbit/s
       capacity: 100Mbit/s
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=8139too driverversion=0.9.28 duplex=half latency=64 link=no maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s
       resources: irq:21 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:d0100000-d01000ff
  *-network DISABLED
       description: Wireless interface
       physical id: 2
       logical name: wlan0
       serial: 00:1c:26:19:0d:db
       capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=b43 driverversion=2.6.38-12-generic-pae firmware=N/A link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg

[TBABill]

Easy fix. On Ubuntu 11.04 and later, and all systems based on them, the STA driver is broken for the BCM4311. If you have ethernet access to the Internet, just plug in and

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sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter firmware-b43-installer

Once it finishes, just restart OR you can instead

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sudo modprobe b43

Wait a few moments and connect.

If on restart it's not automatically enabled, modprobe the driver again in order to use the driver, then

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gksudo gedit /etc/modules

Add "b43" without quotes to the end of that file, then save and exit it.

[Killer boi]

I really don't know what to say here, I've installed firmware-b43-installer, I've reset, and when I did gksudo gedit /etc/modules "b43" without quotes of course, is already there. But when I click on the network manager it still says
"wireless networks, device not ready (firmware missing)"

And I guess you might have missed it, my laptop has no internet access as the ethernet port hasn't worked for quite some time.

[billhedrick]

I broke down and bought an additional card when my wireless went out, a USB plug which works great, I think you might want to look into an ethernet card for your lappy if they are still available. I Know this doesn't help your current situation tho

[Moebius]

Download four latest packages (dkms, patch, fakeroot, bcmwl)

dkms link: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/m ... -1_all.deb

patch 64bit link: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/m ... _amd64.deb
32bit link: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/m ... 1_i386.deb

fakeroot 64bit link: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/m ... _amd64.deb
32bit link: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/m ... 1_i386.deb

bcmwl 64bit link: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/m ... _amd64.deb
32bit link: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/m ... 5_i386.deb

Install these packages (don't double up the 32 and 64 bit versions) and see if you have success.

Cheers.

[Killer boi]

Sadly, no luck there, nothing seems to have changed as far as I can tell.